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...remaining pieces in the Salomon Collection; in the first three days they had paid altogether a little less than $200,000. Mrs. Elisha Walker, Manhattan social bigwig, successfully proffered $44,000 for six tapestried chairs and a sofa that had been made, a long time ago, for Queen Marie Antoinette of France. A little Watteau, which showed a pale libidinous god making love to a plump nymph, went to a dealer for $12,500. A portrait by Fragonard of the Chevalier de Billaut, "in gay attire, seated in a chair," drew $24,000 from P. W. French...
Meanwhile the King-Emperor and Queen-Empress sojourned amid huge drifts of country snow, at Sandringham. George V was known to have telegraphed his Keeper of the Swans certain instructions as to their wintry care...
Four child-Archdukes?Robert, Felix, Karl and Rudolph?donned small white surplices, swung fuming censers, and chanted a quavering treble litany, while there knelt in prayer before them the child-Archduchesses Charlotte and Elizabeth and the mother of these six children, Zita, onetime Austro-Hungarian Empress and Queen...
Helen of Troy is a legend whose life has passed, like an old coat, from king to courtier, from courtier to servant, from servant to beggar. Homer wrote about a fine and glittering lady; Marlowe found lines like golden bells, for a casual queen; John Erskine made the legend into a matrimonial farce, and now the matrimonial farce has become a cinema, played against Maxfield Parrish walls and valleys, by Maria Corda, a pretty little blonde girl with an affected way of showing her teeth...
...front page is a composgraph of a tearful reunion of Peaches and Daddy, on the second, one of Mrs. Snyder with her little daughter weeping at the barred door. There is the autobiography of a society woman who was once slippery Olive, a queen of the dips; there are essays on the nudity of college girls, and other divertissements, all apparently by the same hand...